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Note from the Executive Director- $15,000 Challenge Opportunity!

I’m thrilled and gratified to share the news that an anonymous Tapestry dancer will match – dollar for dollar, up to $15,000 – your donations to the “Bricks, Tar & Air” building maintenance campaign. This matching program begins March 1, and ends in August. Success with it will bring us to our campaign goal of $92,000 – in about 1/3 the time we’d projected it would take. This then opens the opportunity to devote the balance of 2015 and 2016 to work towards covering the $37,873 which, we recently learned, the Minnehaha Avenue reconstruction project will cost us.

You can track the matching campaign with the beautiful poster in the hallway showing and celebrating the campaign progress. Nancy Ward, with creative and logistical aid from Rick Wheeler, created it for Tapestry. Watch for the colorful patches as we step up the ladder of donations for the match!

MARY

Mary Cummings
Executive Director

From the Fund Development Committee
Wondering about donating stock to Tapestry?

Suppose you decide to give a donation to a tax exempt (501(c)) non profit organization, such as Tapestry. If you wish to give a $5,000 gift, you can take that amount from your savings or checking account and the gift will cost you $5,000. However, if you decide to give appreciated stock instead of cash, your gift will eliminate capitol gains taxes on the entire gift and help Tapestry at the same time. Depending upon how much the stock has appreciated since you acquired it, and your tax bracket, the difference could be hefty. Consider talking to a tax advisor about your specific situation.

When Tapestry receives a gift of stock, it is immediately sold and the money utilized according to the donor’s instructions, for general operations or the building maintenance campaign. Please contact Mary Cummings, Executive Director (through the website here or by phone: 612-722-2914 x 1) , if you want to discuss this option for giving.

Many thanks to members of the Tapestry community who have made recent gifts of stock either for general operations or for the building maintenance campaign:

Call of the Loon Contra Dance Weekend is just around the corner on April 10-12! Preregister now for the whole weekend to make sure to reserve your spot at the very popular evening dances. Spaces are filling up- get your payment in now so you don’t get turned away at the door! (Remember- preregistration is only secured when we receive your payment) Click here to register online or download a PDF of the registration form. You can also find the paper form at Tapestry. Hear the Call of the Loon!